[AT] OT Weather

[Cecil Bearden]

I am in the condition that to do something standing up requires 
something to lean on.  All due to lifting my Dad around after his leg 
amputation from Knee surgery and my 40 yr old back injury.  As long a I 
can do something with a piece of machinery and do not have to lift 
anything, I can get some work done.  If it requires lifting while on two 
feet, I have to either forget it, or hire help..

Cecil

On 3/7/2019 12:51 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> I too have lost a number of trees to high winds over the last few 
> years. A few were weak in spots and probably old enough to be at risk 
> but I have also lost many that were sound and would have been viable 
> for many years with more normal storms. The winds have been brutal 
> especially the last 3 years.
> I have and am still quickly losing many ash trees to the emerald ash 
> borer. Is that a factor in your area yet? I have two ash trees now 
> dying that were big trees when we moved to this farm 68 years ago. 
> Probably a hundred that are much smaller, maybe 8" to 14" trunks, many 
> of which I planted or chose to let grow after they sprouted from seed. 
> A few of those are kind of close to buildings and I need to cut them 
> soon before that start failing. They were supposed to out live me by a 
> good margin... Those were planted specifically for shade at those 
> buildings.
> If it gives you any encouragement I turn 77 in a few weeks and after I 
> finally got past serious muscle damage from various statins after my 
> bypass I am back to serious work. I'm still slower and I am still 
> behind but I still spend a fair amount of time swinging from a 
> chainsaw and I do all of my wood splitting by hand with an 8 pound 
> maul. Really big blocks especially those that are really gnarly I 
> split with a batch of wedges (the real old ones are far better than 
> the new ones) and a 10 pound sledge.
> I have now abandoned my 30 year plans...  :-)   I only get serious 
> about 5 year planning now. I intend to stay active "by damn" and not 
> always take the easy road. It doesn't much matter what I am doing as 
> long as I keep doing. Too many of my old classmates that I stay in 
> contact with are just sitting around and are barely active at all.
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> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:20 AM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net 
> <mailto:crbearden at copper.net>> wrote:
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>     > I spent the last 2 days with some tree trimmers cutting trees
>     from our
>     > service line to the house and also taking out a tree about 8 ft
>     from
>     > the front of hte house that had several old wounds from Ice aand
>     > tornadoes that had not healed properly.   Also had some bark
>     beetles I
>     > did not know about...
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>     We had a heavy wet snow last fall that came early and caught our
>     trees
>     with a lot of leafy vegetation due to late rains, I lost my work area
>     shade tree, and several shade trees around the house. My biggest fear
>     now is we will get the trees leafed out this spring and then get a
>     wet
>     mid April snow.  Historically we have had some snows as late as April
>     20.  They are very wet. and pile up on the corner posts as high as 4
>     inches.
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>     When I built our house back in 1985 we had over 20 trees in the
>     1.5 acre
>     yard area.  Thanks to ice storms and snow, we now have 8.  I had the
>     tree trimmers cut the trees back a lot.  It should last 10 years.  I
>     will be 75 then, and probably have to hire someone to cut the trees
>     back.  Hopefully in 10 years I can still work in the snorklelift
>     bucket....  This getting old ain't no fun....
>
>     Cecil
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